In what ways is your appreciation of both texts enhanced by a comparative study of ambition on Frankenstein and Blade runner? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ridley Scott's Bladerunner both project dystopian images of society and morality, propelled by the main characters' ambition and egotism. It is through this that an audience’s appreciation for texts is enhanced. These complex texts can be seen as a pair that differs in context, seeing as they are separated through time. Frankenstein driven by romantic imagery and set in historic context, that analysis the European divide in society perpetuated by superficiality.
“The Controversy of Race: Does Huckleberry Finn Combat or Reinforce Racist Attitudes?” A Case Study in Critical Controversy: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 2nd Edition. Ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2004.
Some things that influence the course of Hamlet's revenge would be: • his attitude to Claudius; • his encounters with the ghost; • the Murder of Gonzago; • his relationship with his mother; • Polonius and his children; • Rosencrantz and Guildernstern. 2. Consider the importance attached to the idea of revenge and the cultural history of revenge that Shakespeare might have drawn upon. 3. Find out the meanings allotted to the murder of a king in the plays of the time.
Perrine uses evidence from the poem, as well as pieces of Jerman’s work to argue in favor of an intelligent, shrewd Duke of Ferrara. As readers in the 20th century, we may view the Duke as a senseless and vain character. As the Duke confesses to the murder of his late wife, we immediately peg him as a bad guy, regardless of his title and nobility. Jerman judges the Duke similarly, adding that the Duke must be an idiot for confessing to the Count’s emissary (Perrine, 157). Perrine reminds us that Browning’s “The Last Duchess” is set during the 16th century during a time when nobility ruled over actions.
This essay is going to be looking at the short story of Sylvia Plath Superman and Paula Browns New Snowsuit. Aspects that will be looked at will be areas such as the comparisons of reality and fantasy, the use of colour to symbolise innocence along with the possibility that the story may be auto-biographical of the writers life. Sylvia Plath was born into a time that was male dominated and because of her controversial work has been described as a victim in a male dominated society by feminists like Sambrook (1990 pg 10). Wagner describes Plaths struggles in a male society as ’Wagner –Martin Claims Plath is broadly feminist in her own talent…and her anger that her fame would be more difficult to achieve and her work judged by different standards because she was a woman’ Gill (2005 pg 8) A lot of her semi biographical work such as The bell jar has female characters who can’t achieve their potenticial because of the male dominated society. Sylvia Plath writes about realism a lot in her work which was seen at the time to be ‘necessary because the actualities of women’s lives had been overlooked.’ Reynolds (1999 pg170).
Victor represents society intent on pushing the boundaries and themonster represents the product of this curiosity; of technology gone wrong;technology without ethics. “Accursed creator! Why do you form a monster so hideousthat even you turn away from me in disgust?” The monsters constant rhetoricquestioning addresses these ethics and illuminates the monster as a symbol of innocence in the face of corruption. Victor’s relationships also allow insight into themoral dilemma of creation. Victor’s positive family relationship is juxtaposed againsthis spite for the monster, a somewhat child of his.
Rationale Cyril Connolly – an English writer - said that “literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice”. I have realized the meaning of this quotation in Charles Dickens’s novels. Unlike W.M. Thackeray, with lightly critical works focusing on the corruption of the English upper class in the 19th century, Dickens’s novels sharply criticize the ruling class; however, this writer always makes humanity rooms for the poor and working class. Of all the writers in the 19th century, Charles Dickens seems to be the best-known name for works about children issue.
George Bernard Shaw’s play, mounted in London in 1914, proposed a different telling of this story and its central creation myth. That myth is that one person can transform another person, usually by magic or alchemy, and in fundamental ways, to achieve a sort of perfection. The linguistic twist in Shaw’s story is that the linguistics professor, Henry Higgins, challenges his friend, Colonel Pickering, with a bet that he can pass off Eliza Doolittle, a good and innocent woman from the lowest class of London society, as a respectable member of the most elevated upper class society. The story of Pygmalion is of Eliza Doolittle, a woman with a bad register, who is taught the social register. In the happy ending of the story, she has hit all the right notes.
The moral of being human is to necessarily be flawed, and to strive for perfection is to deny one’s own morality. The themes of both narratives can be understood as morality. The morality of Aylmer in “The Birth-Mark” can be seen through his journals. “The volume, rich with achievements that had won renown for its author, was yet as melancholy as record as ever mortal hand had penned” (Hawthorne 220). This example shows the reader that Aylmer is trying to hide his imperfections by trying to make his wife completely perfect.
Morgan le Fay, Lady Bertilak, and the Virgin Mary, help develop the overall themes of the work by forcing the Gawain to question his ideals. Morgan le Fay and Lady Bertilak, the magical old woman and the beauty, are characterized as the male hero’s opponents. They manipulate but rely on his final choice, and are protected by their social status in Bertilak’s court. Both Morgan and Lady Bertilak are condemned in Gawain’s angry speech for stepping outside what he expected and for challenging his conflicting ideals. Gawain’s lady love, Mary, on the other hand, is the constant guide and source of comfort to which he may always turn.